At least one person has died after a tree fell. Ida was a category 4 when it made landfall with winds that reached 150 miles per hour. Louisiana s governor said it s one of the strongest storms to make landfall in modern times. The entire city of new orleans is now in darkness. People in some areas have reported flood waters reaching up to their chest, pleading for rescue. More than a million customers are without power across the state. People who evacuated are staying in shelters. Louisiana s governor estimates several dozen decided to ride it out in place. We re better prepared now in terms of our protection system. But when you have mother nature throw at you a storm this strong with the surge, the wind, the rabe that we re talking about with hurricane ida, there s going to be devastating impact. And we have to do everything we can to save lives in the immediate response, and we ll get to the property repairs later. But i can tell you for several days, we re going to be engaged in
Of the strongest storms ever to hit the state. Now one of the concerns is how well the state s levies will hold up. One levy has failed leading to flash flooding. And this is what it looked like when this deadly storm moveda, shore. The storm surge and winds were so strong it partially reversed the flow of the mississippi river, something experts say is extremely uncommon. Right now all of orleans parish, including the city of new orleans is without power. State wide more than a million homes and businesses have no electricity and at least one person has died so far. People that evacuated are staying in shelters and many decided to ride it out at home and the louisiana governor says rescue efforts will begin soon. We are better prepared now. But when you have mother nature throw at you a storm this strong with the surge, wind, rain we are talking about with hurricane ida, there will be devastating impacts. We have to do everything that we can to save lives in the immediate response. We
Should trust what the taliban said. No, i m not saying that we have very significant leverage to incentivize the taliban to make good. All right. Straight to a fox news alert. Now, the u. S. Intercepting five rockets fired at kabul airport as officials warn our final days inside afghanistan can be the most dangerous. Ainsley: meanwhile, ida, now a tropical storm now making landfall as a category 4 hurricane, more than 1 million people are now without power in louisiana and in mississippi. Steve: take a look at this. This security cam with a capturing the amount of flooding in just one hour. And you can see it come up and come up and come up. Jeff paul joins us live from new orleans where the entire city is out of power. You, jeff, are operating on battery lights this morning. [broken audio] drive to our spot this morning for our reports, and we saw a lot of downed trees and debris in the road. [lost audio] ripped off a building and you can see it snapped a traffic signal in the french
40 in washington and this is cnn cnn breaking news good morning, everyone. i m casey khan, live in washington, dc and we do begin this hour with major breaking news overnight. a bridge in baltimore collapsing after it was hit by a large ship. you can see that happening there video from that live stream shows the moment of impact with the francis scott key bridge, which then crumbles into the water. this happened around 01:30 a.m. eastern time overnight. official say that multiple cars fell into the tab sco river below right now rescue cuz crews are searching for at least seven people. one official called the collapse, a quote, developing mass casualty event. cnn s gabe cohen has been dispatched to baltimore. he joins us on the phone and route to the scene good morning to you. what do we know at this hour yeah. so casey is you mentioned at this hour we have confirmed that this shipping container, a couple of hours ago around 01:30 a.m. eastern time collided with it appears
we re going to begin with that breaking news out of baltimore this morning. the francis scott key bridge, part of interstate 695, partially collapsed overnight. it happened when a large cargo ship struck the bridge. the vessel was leaving baltimore for sri lanka. the local coast guard received word of an impact at 1:27 a.m. eastern time this morning. the port of baltimore is one of the nation s largest shipping hubs. according to the associated press, emergency responders are searching for at least seven people believed to be in the water. the washington post reporting now they are looking for up to 20 people. those numbers unclear at this point. it is too early to know exactly how many people overall were affected. the baltimore fire department called the collapse a developing mass casualty event. we re hearing from transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he tweeted moments ago he has spoken with maryland s governor and baltimore s mayor to offer the department s suppor